Preface PART I: BASICS 1 The Phallic Code of Neckwear Having To Stick Your Neck Out Tying the Knot Up Tight, Out 'a Sight The Ladies' Question: How Low Can You Go? Getting Beauty By the Throat Tie Die? Critical Refrains 2 Drive You Crazy Whatever Turns You On Why You Are Not An Animal Baby, Oh Baby! What Only a Mother Could Love A Note On Analytic Interpretation Stick Shift Phallic Phantasy or Fantastic Fallacy? The Really Prickly Question The Prime Cut A Little Slice of Heaven 3 Why Sex is Such a Touchy Subject How We Look To Martians Unknown To Ourselves Higher Love Who Needs An Ego Anyway? The Fictive Self And Its Objects Subversive Sexuality Sex and Intimacy...Or Maybe Not PART II: GENDERS 4 Love You Madly Through the Looking Glass Every One A Boy The Battle Of The Sexes Adam And His Rib A Touchy Question 5 Love You To Death Love And Death The Riddle Of Masculine Aggression She Loves To Be Beaten? Questions Of Conscience Going Over To The Dark Side Anatomy Is[n't] Destiny PART III: HISTORIES 6 Inventing the Intimate Behind The Wall Greek Sex Right To Privacy Our Bodies, Our Selves Freud's Science Of Intimacy Think Again 7 Oedipal Modernity Every Man A King Who Wears The Pants Symptoms Of The Times Love Stories Pornographic Revolution The Universal Brothel His and Hers 8 Empire of Fetishes From Sade To Sex Ed Victoria's Secret The Consolation of the Fetish Lonely Bliss Shop 'Til You Drop The Triumph of Sexiness Conclusion: The Freudian Prospect Bibliography